Waste Management

Ford’s Hermosillo Stamping and Assembly Plant has attained zero waste-to-landfill status, which means the company is now landfill-free in all of its Mexico manufacturing facilities 

As a result, Ford Mexico’s manufacturing plants are diverting 1.5 million pounds of landfill waste this year and each year going forward, based on 2014 rates for waste generation, the company says in its 2014-15 sustainability report.

Nestle's largest UK factory has achieved zero-waste-to-landfill and cut emissions by 10%, one year after installing a giant anaerobic digester

The Fawdon factory, near Newcastle, is converting four tonnes of solid waste and 200,000 litres of liquid waste into renewable energy and clean water each day.

The anaerobic digester produces enough biogas to fuel a 200kw CHP engine which creates 4.8MWh of electricity a day - around 8% of the sites total consumption.

Scotland is offering interest-free loans to industry to become more resource efficient

The loans will help fund new heating systems and experiments into improving industrial processes, amongst other things, which could help save businesses up to £2.9bn in total.

Resource Efficient Scotland, a programme of the Government-funded Zero Waste Scotland, will be overseeing the programme and carrying out audits on applicants.